How many forums make proper use of their forum calendar, bar listing members birthdays on one. They never get used much on most other forums having them, so don't see it as being that needed for phpBB 3.1

One would say phpbb is about community and communities often have events and meetings so.. It is useful for many boards but not useful for others. Same as many other phpbb features such as user ranks, attachments, jabber, custom profile fields etc. I really dont like this dividing to "bb features" and "not bb features". I understand why developers chose this approach, to keep the core as light as possible but then it would be great if there were many "official extensions based on voting in phpBB Ideas". I am really looking forward how this will go and what phpbb will be in next few years.

Kamahl19 wrote:I understand why developers chose this approach, to keep the core as light as possible but then it would be great if there were many "official extensions based on voting in phpBB Ideas".

I'd prefer official extensions to adding non-forum related features, like event calendars and newsletters to the forum core but they add what they want and skip what they don't. In the end, it's up to them; not us, so I don't think the votes mean much.

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Kamahl19 wrote:I understand why developers chose this approach, to keep the core as light as possible but then it would be great if there were many "official extensions based on voting in phpBB Ideas". I am really looking forward how this will go and what phpbb will be in next few years.

I couldn't agree more.
I wish there where enough developers that we could have an Extension development team for official extensions. There is actually some features which could be trimmed out of the core, if it was possible to have officially supported extensions.

Kamahl19 wrote:I understand why developers chose this approach, to keep the core as light as possible but then it would be great if there were many "official extensions based on voting in phpBB Ideas". I am really looking forward how this will go and what phpbb will be in next few years.

I couldn't agree more.
I wish there where enough developers that we could have an Extension development team for official extensions. There is actually some features which could be trimmed out of the core, if it was possible to have officially supported extensions.